It’s worth noting that it’s misleading to do a direct comparison between Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services: Google Cloud includes revenue from the search giant’s cloud infrastructure services, as well as its popular G Suite productivity service. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services does the vast majority of its business in cloud infrastructure. Microsoft, for its part, also includes revenue from infrastructure, productivity, and other business services in its figure.

Despite gains in the cloud, things were otherwise rocky for Google’s partner company Alphabet. The company reported $US25.9 billion in net revenues for the quarter – a miss compared to the $US26.32 billion the analysts expected.